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Unnamed Tabloid 1.1

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Yes, it’s true. The theme has been updated. Mainly I cleaned up the single post stuff – took out the “related posts” table and the social bookmark table at the bottom. I found I didn’t need it anymore once I installed this handy plugin and selected the option to show the facebook, twitter and email links at the bottom of each post (basically, just the single articles, not pages). You’ll see the plugin in action at the bottom of posts on this very site also. Look down. See?

You can download version 1.1 of the theme here.

Um, I meant to say, “Unnamed Tabloid 1.02.”

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So, yeah, a funny thing happened as I was converting my other site (The National Protrusion.com) to the latest version of the theme — the “More News” section at the bottom of the front page was all f’d up.

For some reason, the category links at the top of each list of three articles was linking to the incorrect category. I think I had something amiss with “the loop.” (Doesn’t everyone, though?)

Anyway, it’s fixed now, and you can download the newest, latest version, Version 1.02, right here.

Unnamed Tabloid 1.01

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Okay, so I fixed a bunch of problems and have resubmitted to WordPress. We’ll see what happens. But, obviously, you don’t need to have WordPress approve the theme in order to use it. As such, I’d like to point out one major improvement in this version of the theme.

Related Posts:

You might remember a short time ago I wrote about the fact that you had to have Yet Another Related Posts Plugin installed in order for this theme to function correctly, at least as far as single posts went. Well, that’s no longer true.
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Hold Up!

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Okay, hold everything. I submitted my little theme to WordPress, and what do you know, I got a notice that there are a bunch of errors that pop up when the debug option is turned on. Lo and behold, I tried it myself, and it’s true. So, needless to say, downloading the theme right now might be imprudent. I am working on fixes and will update as soon as possible. I already have most of it figured out, but there’s some stuff holding up the works.

Unnamed Tabloid Theme – Things You Should Know

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This post consists of some miscellaneous items of interest, about the Unnamed Tabloid theme, that it might be important for you to know.

Archive Page Template:

Unnamed Tabloid comes with a template for an archive page, called archives.php. This is a custom archive page that displays your posts by month and also as just a list of all your posts in descending chronological order. It looks something like this:

Unnamed Tabloid theme archive page template
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How to Use the Unnamed Tabloid theme Options Panel, Part 1

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One of the cool things about the Unnamed Tabloid theme, if I do say so myself, is the fact that it has an options panel with many choices for customizing the theme and how it functions. (I know other themes have these kinds of options, but mine is free and much cooler.)

Firstly, you can choose which articles are displayed on the front page, and in what order. You can also choose an image to be featured on the front page.

This is what the front page looks like (or at least the top half of it – would that be “above-the-fold” in newspaper-speak?):

Unnamed Tabloid theme - front page

You’ll see the primary featured article in the left column, and above it the featured image. It would probably make sense to have the featured image be related to the primary featured article, but I leave that up to you.
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The Unnamed Tabloid theme

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Unnamed Tabloid theme - front page

I’m announcing the release of The Unnamed Tabloid theme, my first full-fledged WordPress theme. You can download it here. I have submitted it to WordPress’s theme directory, and if it gets accepted, I will post the link to that page as the main download page.

There is a live demo of the theme available here, with sample posts and whatnot. Also, my satirical news website, The National Protrusion.com, currently uses the theme. So you can see it in use there as well. Continue reading →

Instapaper Times – a way to style Instapaper

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So, I guess it’s kind of appropriate that my first real post on this blog would be about my first real program-type-thing, which was sent out into the world earlier today. It’s not really a program; it’s a snippet of javascript and a bunch of CSS that allows users of Instapaper to use a different stylesheet, namely the one I made, which gives it a more newsy kind of look.

I love Instapaper. I don’t use that many applications, really, but I use Instapaper all the time. This might be because I like to read news articles and certain blog posts pretty much every day, and many news sites are designed so you are assaulted visually while trying to simply read one of the articles on the site. Instapaper is an application that lets you tag articles or web pages to “read later.” Those articles get collected at your Instapaper account page, and you can go there whenever you want and read just the article – not all the crap and flash and ads and poor layout or whatever it is about the original site in question that bothered you. Continue reading →